Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
- detective
- butler
- deaf-mute
- guest
- parody
- murder
- spoof
- mansion
- whodunit
- cadaver
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Truman Capote
Lionel Twain
Alec Guinness
Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Peter Sellers
Sidney Wang
David Niven
Dick Charleston
- Maggie Smith — Dora Charleston
- James Coco — Milo Perrier
- Peter Falk — Sam Diamond
- Eileen Brennan — Tess Skeffington
- Elsa Lanchester — Jessica Marbles
- Estelle Winwood — Nurse Withers
- Nancy Walker — Kitchen Maid Yetta
- James Cromwell — Marcel Cassette
- Richard Narita — Willie Wang
- Fay Wray — Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Robert Moore
- Written
- Neil Simon
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 930 ratings
- Studio
- Rastar Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
